School News

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Ranelagh Celebrates Diwali
Published 20/10/17
Diwali is a very important festival for many of the families in our school and last week it was joyously celebrated at Ranelagh. The children learnt all about the importance of the Hindu Festival of Lights from a very special visitor, Ms Pramida, from The International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), who joined our Friday assembly explaining the meaning and significance of Diwali.

Members of our PTA also attended the assembly, dressed in sarees and cultural clothing, and offered silent reflection by lighting diva lamps and performing puja.

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Superb Swimmers!
Published 20/10/17
Felipe and Andra, two of our Year 6 students, were awarded a survival certificate from Swim England. It is designed to demonstrate how children can be safe in the water. They were awarded this by showing how they would react if they found themselves in difficulty in the water, by testing them in role play situations.

A huge congratulations to them both!

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Newham Carnival Celebrated at Ranelagh
Published 20/10/17
Every year, in the Summer term, Ranelagh loves to get involved in the Newham Carnival. An annual event, the carnival takes place in a different location each year across Newham, with over 50,000 people in attendance. Last year was no different, as Central Park played host over the weekend of July 8^th-9^th.

Hundreds of school children, community groups and residents took to the streets to celebrate this year’s theme, ‘A World of Carnivals,’ rejoicing in Newham’s diversity and drawing inspiration from other globally renowned carnivals.

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Harvest Festival
Published 09/10/17
One of the many amazing things about the Ranelagh community is its giving nature, perhaps best exemplified during our annual Harvest Festival. The Harvest Festival is a celebration of the food, grown all over the world and here in Britain, and an opportunity to share food and help those who are less fortunate.

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An Exciting New Look!
Published 26/09/17
Ranelagh, a beautiful, Victorian school building steeped in rich history and tradition, is getting an exciting new look! One of the many amazing things happening here in our school is our new build programme, which promises to transform and invigorate our site.

Ranelagh is rapidly growing in popularity as a first-choice school. No doubt part of this has been due to our exciting renovations, one of which is to increase the capacity for more children.

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What a Glorious Garden
Published 25/09/17
As Summer draws to a close, our budding gardeners have been marvelling at the abundant plant life in the Ranelagh Garden. Kyle, in Year 5, couldn't believe the size of the sunflowers he'd planted in Spring. "They are taller than the Year 6 girls!" Kyle said, adding "it's great to see what I've grown and the amount of sunflower seeds inside the head" (or capitulas as he will learn in Science this year).

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Meet Our New School Leaders
Published 18/09/17
As another year starts anew, Ranelagh chooses its new school leaders. Children in Key Stage Two, eager to be given even more responsibility, wrote letters to our Year 6 leader, Ms Selsby, explaining why they would make remarkable House Captains or Prefects. The children's letters demonstrated their adept ability to persuade and Ms. Selsby had the difficult task of whittling the letters down to a specially selected chosen few. Mrs. Lawrenson announced the new House Captains and Prefects in our special Friday assembly and each child was awarded with their very own, gold-encrusted badge. Mrs. Lawrenson explained the vital role that these children would have in our school over the coming year.

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Ranelagh: A Leader in Autism Education
Published 18/09/17
Ranelagh has been recognised by the Ambitious Education Trust (AET) as a leader in providing good autism provision. As such, the school (along with 2 other schools within our multi academy trust) is now an accredited trainer providing help to schools centred around good autism practice. This accreditation, supported by the Department of Education, is all the more valuable as we are now the only multi academy trust who can share good practise and knowledge regarding autism across the whole of East London.

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Ranelagh Joins the Tapscott Learning Trust
Published 06/09/17
As of 1 September our three MAT founding schools – Curwen, Ranelagh and Kensington – are officially academies. We’re looking forward to welcoming pupils and their families back this week and starting the next stage of our educational journey together.

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An Inspector Calls - A Year 6 Production
Published 19/07/17
The end of the school year just wouldn’t be the same without a school show. This year, our amazing year sixes didn’t disappoint, staging a brilliant production of Andrew Oxspring’s An Inspector Calls. The play is centred around a school who, at the end of the year, and in the last week of the term, find themselves unfortunately receiving a last minute inspection. Chaos, panic and hilarity ensue as the staff and students aim to ‘pull up their socks’ and impress the inspectors.

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Ranelagh Hits the Right Note
Published 11/07/17
On Wednesday July 5^th the roof was raised to the sound of joyous song as the whole school joined together to celebrate the end of yet another successful year at Ranelagh.

The concert began with Year 5 belting out a wonderful rendition of ELO's 1977 smash hit 'Mr Blue Sky,' followed by Year 1 singing 'Waving Flag' by K'naan. Year 4, voices trained and ready for their upcoming Festival of Voices performance, sang 'One Love' by Bob Marley and Reception dedicated their song, 'Wonder' by Emile Sande, to Year 6.

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Thank You For Making a Difference

Published 11/07/17

Mrs Sehnaj Patel, our Inclusion Manager, was overwhelmed when she was presented with a certificate of excellence from Pearson Teaching Awards.

The awards were established in 1999 as a means of celebrating and recognising excellence in education. They serve to honour outstanding teachers, from across Great Britain, and highlight just how vital success in education is to the health and wealth of the UK.

Mrs. Patel was presented with the prestigious award, in front of parents, staff and students, on the day of our end of year concert. She was nominated by one of our parents for her contribution to children with special needs, who wrote "Thank you for everything and the whole team - all of Ranelagh Primary School, for being understanding and caring."